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The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the numerous service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite’s business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.

Oracle delivers a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that exposes encapsulated business functions as well-defined interfaces, as well as a robust BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) processor. Organizations can use these tools to orchestrate business processes throughout the enterprise. To do this effectively, the business services of various applications need to be discovered, described, and documented in a uniform way and located in a single place. The Oracle Integration Repository is the solution to this problem, and much more.

The site lists the benefits as follows:

Better integration planning

Readily available information about your business service interfaces allows you to make informed decisions about your integration projects

Centralized information helps you assess the impact of your integrations

Reduced cost of implementing integrations with the E-Business Suite

System integrators can discover all their business service interfaces in one place

Uniformity of documentation lowers the learning curve

Reduced Maintenance Costs

Assurance that you are using supported public interfaces

Features include:

Unified Repository from which all integration interface types are exposed

Updates are automated and documented

Single source of truth for all interfaces

Can be searched by keywords

Navigable either by product or by the integration standards you wish to leverage

Powerful well-designed UI helps you to easily find the data that you are interested in

The Oracle Integration Repository is an integral part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Over time, it will grow to include the integration capabilities of the PeopleSoft and JD Edwards family of products. Until then, you can find that information in the PeopleSoft Interactive Services Repository (located here: a PeopleSoft Customer Connection login is required to access the documentation).

In Release 12, the Oracle Integration Repository will ship as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository will automatically be updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment. But until Release 12 is available, you can explore an on-line version of the Integration Repository for the 11i10 version of E-Business applications.

This is a really good offering from Oracle which hopefully will make life a lot easier for implementors trying to develop interfaces. I’m really interested to see how it works in R12.